News covering book rights bought and sold, movie rights and foreign rights.
Sentinel Kills Sanford Book By Rachel Deahl - 07/02/2009
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, whose extramarital affair, after becoming front page news, has threatened his political career (and his marriage), has also now lost his book deal.
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Salinger Wins as Judge Blocks Publication of 60 Years Later By Andrew Albanese - 07/01/2009
Finding that author J.D. Salinger is “likely to succeed on the merits of its copyright case," a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction barring the publication of what Salinger’s attorneys called an unauthorized sequel to The Catcher in the Rye.
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The Secrets Behind the Secrets Series by Rachel Deahl - 06/29/2009
When Dan Burstein read The Da Vinci Code in 2003, he was so excited by the book and the myriad historical ephemera it explored that he rushed to his local Barnes & Noble to find out what was true and what wasn't in Dan Brown's book. The search led Burstein on something of an intellectual wild goose chase—he wound up with more than 200 titles on subjects referenced in what became one o...
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Deals by Rachel Deahl - 06/29/2009
A SEAL, Revealed Bruce Nichols at HarperCollins has nabbed world English rights to Eric Greitens’s memoir, Carry You Home: The Making of a Navy SEAL and the Education of a Humanitarian. Greitens, a Rhodes scholar turned Navy SEAL who fought in Afghanistan and did aid work with Mother Teresa’s Home for the Destitute and Dying, tracks his war-time experiences—among other things ...
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Gotham Buys Achatz Memoir By Lynn Andriani - 06/25/2009
Gotham Books has acquired rights to chef Grant Achatz’s memoir, Life, On the Line. The deal was for North American rights and was brokered by Pilar Queen and David McCormick of McCormick & Williams. Rachel Holtzman will edit.
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Deals by Rachel Deahl - 06/22/2009
From YA to A YA author Melissa Marr has closed her first adult deal with her longtime publisher, HarperCollins. Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House brokered the deal for two books for mid-to-high six figures. Jennifer Brehl at HC took North American rights. Heifetz described the first book, Graveminder, as “Six Feet Under laced with ancient Irish evil and a dash of Faulkner”; the seco...
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Deals by Rachel Deahl - 06/15/2009
Maddy & Me Pitched as The Last Lecture meets Marley & Me, Matt Logelin's Adventures with Maddy: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Extraordinary Community That Healed Us, went at auction to Amanda Englander at Grand Central. Rachel Sussman and Eve Bridburg of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth brokered the deal for North American rights.
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Notes From the Bookroom Michael Scharf, Fiction Reviews Editor, Publishers Weekly August 21, 2007 Russian Chemistry
Serious Russian chemistry flares this Fall (which seems to have already arrived in ... More
